GnuCash

[Derek Atkins]

Keith,

Keith Bellairs <keith at bellairs.org> writes:

> Subaccounts do not supply all of the functionality of "activity-based"
> accounting, unfortunately. If I create subaccounts for each business and
> track how much office supplies I use for each business it then becomes much
> harder to answer the question, how much office supplies are we using all
> together - you have to create a report that finds the office supplies
> subaccount for each business. If you never have to answer the "all
> together" question then subaccounts are fine.
>
> Activity based accounts really add a new "dimension" (in the mathematical
> sense) to each account. It has already been mentioned that "activity" is
> orthogonal to the existing account structure.
>
> Of course this creates a pain when entering data. Now you have to identify
> both the activity and the rest of the account info for each transaction. So
> it sounds cool but might not really get that much use in the typical case.

While what you say here is correct, it's irrelevant here because GnuCash
does not support "activity-based" tagging of transactions, so the only
tool you have right now is additional subaccounts.

Patches always welcome.

> Keith

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-derek

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